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The Welfare Foods (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001

S.R. 2001/139 · Made 29 March 2001

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WELFARE FOODS

Made 29th March 2001

Coming into operation 1st April 2001

The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safetyf1, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 13(3) and (4) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1988f2 and section 171(2) to (5) of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992f3 and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

See S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1); Article 3(6)

f2

S.I. 1988/594 (N.I. 2); Article 13(4) was amended by section 4 of and paragraph 35(1) of Schedule 2 to the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 9)

f3

1992 c. 7; section 171(2) to (5) is applied by Article 15A of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998, which Article was inserted by Article 22(1) of and paragraph 6(9) of Schedule 6 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/1511 (N.I. 15)), and amended by section 4 of and paragraph 35(4) and (5) of Schedule 2 to the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 9)

Contents

  1. 1Citation, commencement and interpretation
  2. 2Amendment of regulation 1 of the principal Regulations
  3. 3Amendment of regulation 4 of the principal Regulations
  4. 4Amendment of regulation 9 of the principal Regulations
  5. Signature
  6. Explanatory note

1Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Welfare Foods (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2001.

(2)

In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Welfare Foods Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1988f1.

2Amendment of regulation 1 of the principal Regulations

In regulation 1(2) of the principal Regulations (Citation, commencement and interpretation) the definition of “family credit” shall be deleted.

3Amendment of regulation 4 of the principal Regulations

(1)

Regulation 4f1 of the principal Regulations (purchase of dried milk at a reduced price) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2)

In paragraph (1):

(a)

the words “to family credit awarded with effect from a date falling before 5th October 1999 or” shall be deleted;

(b)

the words “family credit or” shall be deleted;

(c)

for “£3·90” there shall be substituted “£4·05”.

(3)

In paragraph (1A), for “£70” there shall be substituted “£71”.

(4)

In paragraph (2), for the words “family credit”, there shall be substituted the words “working families' tax credit for the purposes of paragraph (1)”.

(5)

In paragraph (4)(a), for the words “to family credit awarded with effect from a date falling before 5th October 1999 or”, there shall be substituted the words, “working families' tax credit for the purposes of paragraph (1)”.

4Amendment of regulation 9 of the principal Regulations

In regulation 9(1) (inability to purchase dried milk at a reduced price), the words, “family credit”, shall be deleted.

Signature

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 29th March 2001.

L.S.

W. B. Smith

Assistant Secretary

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations further amend the Welfare Foods Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1988 (the principal Regulations).

Regulations 2, 3(1), (2), (4), and (5) and 4 remove references to family credit in regulations 1, 4 and 9 of the principal Regulations, as family credit is no longer in existence.

Regulation 3(2)(c) also amends regulation 4(1)(c) of the principal Regulations to increase the price payable for dried milk by a person entitled to purchase it at a reduced price, from £3·90 to £4·05 per 900 grams per week.

Regulation 3(3) amends regulation 4(1A) of the principal Regulations. It increases from £70 to £71 the amount of any reduction in the appropriate maximum which may not be exceeded if a person is to be regarded as entitled to working families' tax credit for the purposes of regulation 4(1).